Gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in the BRICS countries 2000-2029

For most of the past two decades, China had the highest GDP growth of any of the BRICS countries, although it was overtaken by India in the mid-2010s, and India is predicted to have the highest growth in the 2020s. All five countries saw their GDP growth fall during the global financial crisis in 2008, and again during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020; China was the only economy that continued to grow during both crises, although India's economy also grew during the Great Recession. In 2014, Brazil experienced its own recession due to a combination of economic and political instability, while Russia also went into recession due to the drop in oil prices and the economic sanctions imposed following its annexation of Crimea.

在过去二十年的大部分时间里，中国是金砖五国中GDP增长最快的国家，尽管在2010年代中期被印度超越，但预计在2020年代，印度将实现最高的增长。这五个国家在2008年的全球金融危机和2020年的新冠疫情中都经历了GDP增长的下滑；中国是唯一在这两次危机中持续增长的经济体，尽管在次贷危机期间，印度的经济也实现了增长。2014年，巴西由于其经济和政治不稳定而经历了自己的衰退，而俄罗斯也因为油价下跌及其随后对克里米亚的吞并而受到的经济制裁而陷入衰退。